Jeff Pollet

By the power invested in me, I hearby proclaim this woman, "White Woman of Next Month!"

(sorry, you cant have February.)

Not all heroes wear blue jeans

Oakland pastor attacked by federal agent takes first step to sue Rev. Jorge Bautista was hit in the face by a projectile device while protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Coast Guard Island. He’s seeking $5 million in damages. 

Rev. Jorge Bautista was hit in the face by a projectile device while protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Coast Guard Island. He’s seeking $5 million in damages.

Every new Epstein files dump is like confirmation that the grandiose conspiracy theories aren’t depraved enough.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Weird how this works
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME

Pa. set to become 28th state to guarantee protections against hair-based discrimination The legislation prohibits discrimination based on hair type, texture or protective styles such as braids, twists, knots and locs.

Crown Act: Pennsylvania set to become 28th state to guarantee protections against hair-based discrimination - 6abc.com/post/crown-a...

I talk about this in the book: Prof Sharrona Pearl has worked on this. iirc a whopping 25% of the time the media asked family members at a key time (in the wake of murder, grand jury nonindictment, etc) if they FORGAVE the white cop who murdered their kin. NVM+

sharronapearl.com/wp-content/u...

Tweet from @xziondestinyx: I don’t wanna hear about lazy immigrants from a race of people who enslaved a whole other race of people to do all the work they didn’t wanna do

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Stephen Miller must be so disappointed.

Brought to a meeting by a woman I was dating Feels a little cult-y I told her as it started First off, this is not a cult - the cultists said, started the meeting making fun of themselves a little bit not a bad sign, in some ways, I thought Then Self help this, self help that Level up this, level up that Same old, same old Pay this, get that No different than paying to absolve your sins at least in my mind Then, typical, they say they're going to take the potential new members to another room Divide and conquer, another classic strategy I tell my partner that I'm going to take off just not my thing, and she nods in understanding At the door the cultists ask me why I'm leaving just not my thing, I tell them and they nod in understanding yet still standing in my way What's causing this resistance to change in you? Asked in a tone of an innocent question But the content is right up there with Have you stopped beating your wife? If I happened into this situation today I would just say no reason and walk around them But back then Back then I don't know, I thought they had a right to a response? Or maybe I enjoyed bullying them back Paying for leveling up seems wrong to me - I said Just one thing that was bothering me Valuable things, things that are valuable, cost money They told me They told me, knowing that somebody (not these people in the trenches) (but still, somebody) Was making money while all of the Volunteers The people doing the work here today Weren't being paid Except in self help.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

that's what people don't understand about protest marches

it might be fleeting, ineffective, but when i walk down my street i see the stickers - acab, fuck ice, fuck portland police, neuter your cats

each is a signal: sane rational people live in my area

knowing this improves my mental health

#booksky

I'm feeling lucky because now I can name-drop you as a book-published author that I "used to be in a book club with". :)

Evergreen

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say The Oakland Police Department says it is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate the burglary.

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say oaklandside.org/2025/10/29/o...

I’m not sure why Brazil was a red line, but this is a good reminder that it would only take a handful of Republican senators to rein in this administration on MANY issues.

#booksky

#booksky

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Once again LAPD ignore the law AND a federal court injunction preventing them from brutalizing media. I was knocked at the ground by police horse and threatened on a number of occasions with the rest if I didn’t leave the area. PC409.7 clearly details protections for journalists.

@stellagarp.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve been tagged on this a bunch but I just needed to make sure you saw it.

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?

They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.

Is this just me or are others seeing it?

As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

It's "great" to see my employer releasing names and information about *alleged* behavior to the Trump admin, without even telling the people who've been accused what it is that they're accused of. Utterly reprehensible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In good news, my brain MRI shows that my pituitary tumor has involuted. It disappeared. Hooray! For nearly 20 years I had a tumor and now...

it's not a tumah.

I can’t beleive it’s already is-he-dead-yet season. I still have my holy-shit-he’s-gonna-start-wwiii decorations up.

#funny #comic #uspol #trump